What is the emotional state of those who recognize their true state of being created in a state of continual need? How would you feel if you became increasingly aware that you are incomplete in yourself? If you dropped all your false defenses and admitted your true condition of never quite being fully complete and satisfied in this world?
You would be sad...and more than that...I believe you would mourn.
In Mt. 5:4, Jesus tells us that those who mourn are blessed; they shall be comforted. I believe He is saying that blessed are those who do not try to cover over their sadness at being created in a state of continual need with the things of this world. How easy it is to do this! We are now nearing Christmas and most are participating in the frenzy of purchasing gifts that do not last. How wonderful it is to give, but how dangerous it is to try to fill that God shaped hole in each of us through either giving or receiving.
Far better Jesus says is it for us to regularly sense that ache...to mourn...so that we remember that we were created for union with something (someone) far greater than ourselves and anything in this world. We should mourn because we were made for union with God...and until that union is complete...we are not complete. Blessed are those who recognize that fact.
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